rumex pulcher

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

1.(Mus.) A stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a violin; a kit. [1913 Webster]

2.(Bot.) A kind of dock (Rumex pulcher) with fiddle-shaped leaves; -- called also fiddle dock. [1913 Webster]

3.(Naut.) A rack or frame of bars connected by strings, to keep table furniture in place on the cabin table in bad weather. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. [1913 Webster]

Fiddle beetle (Zool.), a Japanese carabid beetle (Damaster blaptoides); -- so called from the form of the body.

Fiddle block (Naut.), a long tackle block having two sheaves of different diameters in the same plane, instead of side by side as in a common double block. --Knight.

Fiddle bow, fiddlestick.

Fiddle fish (Zool.), the angel fish.

Fiddle head, See fiddle head in the vocabulary.

Fiddle pattern, a form of the handles of spoons, forks, etc., somewhat like a violin.

Scotch fiddle, the itch. (Low)

To play first fiddle, or To play second fiddle, to take a leading or a subordinate part. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]